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“With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.”

Important Feelings Illness Tricks Mental Illness

Book:Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

“Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.”

Way Mind Long Happens Eye Night Wonder Growing Long Time Tricks Slips Marvelous Crystals Arabian Mind Changing Arabian Nights

Author:Ken Kesey

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”

World Said Shows Dream Fields Birth Ultimate Medicine Tricks Hats Destination Unspeakable Precedent Anything Is Possible Strangeness Reckoning Trance Carnivals Chimera Analogue

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear. "I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.”

Looks Ends Crazy Broken Ears Tricks Bars Brands Fixed Bartender Mikey Bluetooth Headset

Author:Neal Shusterman

“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”

Thinking Life Done Stories Fate Imagine Safe Pages Finished Tricks Chapters

Book:L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

“I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.”

Thinking Doe Animal Break Laughing Spring Cat Let Me Prison Stranger Tricks Innocent Shelter Break Out Framed Prison Break Animal Shelter

Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana”

Trying Persons Whole Feelings Bigs Crazy Birth Yeah Tricks Islands Cosmic Alleys Helicopters Yacht Crazy Person Bangkok

Author:Michael Grant

“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”

Government Technology Mass Pressure Tricks Minorities Thank God Censorship Exploitation Declaration Censorship In Books Censoring Books Fahrenheit 451 Book

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”

Ifs Should Mind Running Life Is Lying Taken Streets Cry Mines Brother Promise Should Have Silent Tricks Stealing My Brother Los Angeles Republic Hiding Killers Deceiving Cheat Hunts Hiding Place

Book:Legend

Source: Legend

“What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire”

Children Philosophy Eye School Brain Break Influence Excited Tricks Bunch Delusion Falsehood Particles Deluded Electrons

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.”

Thinking Littles Boys Magic Tricks Fascinated Phases Little Boys Magic Tricks

Author:Nicolas Cage

“If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal.”

Ifs Looks Soul Faces Turns Limits Shots Cameras Tricks Stealing Your Soul Creepy

Book:Bossypants

Source: Bossypants

“I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.”

Corners Tricks Around The Corner

Author:Eric Weiner

“This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.”

Men Way Character Feelings Known Mass Roots Gold Skins Luck Lays Fortune Notion Honestly Tricks Destination Seductive Hysteria Strength Of Character Unlucky Bluffs Gold Rush

Author:Patrick deWitt

“Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.”

Knows Men Mind Made Ideas Moments Break Tough Cooking Oil Tricks Salt Mice Baskets Figs Tough Man Mind Made Up

Book:The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

“I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. “It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere… “…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.”

Source: Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon

“The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.”

“By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.”

“A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.”

Sometimes Play Sports Mouths Horse Corners Tricks Curious Hockey Pool Skates Polo

Book:Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel

Source: Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel

“Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.”

Needed Empty Tricks Handy

Book:The Six Rules of Maybe

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit of information that might make sense of something else, it taps you on the head and says, "Remember when you told me to put that memory in the green rubbish bin? Well, I didn't, I put it in the black recycling tub, and it's coming your way again.”

“You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?”

Years Kind Together Three Father Strange Brother Foundation Tricks My Brother Hats Three Years Homicidal Fiance Years Together My Fiance

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”

World Humans Doe Light Eye Human Beings Tricks Fractions Nature Beauty

Author:Albert Hofmann

“Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.”

World Way Trying Running Courses Secret Musician Tricks Novelists Schemes Cunning Trickery Baudelaire Guile Olaf Outwitting Craftiness

Author:Daniel Handler

“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”

“The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.”

Source: Generosity: An Enhancement

“There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked. Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.”

Ifs Knows Said Two Winning Waiting Risk Dangerous Battle Tricks Companion Do You Know Halt Chorus

Author:John Flanagan

“I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.”

People Mother Accepting Forever Knowing Originals Wounds Tricks Heal Substitutes Finding Love

Book:The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl

Source: The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl

“The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.”

Hands Enjoy Journey Storm Tricks Sunshine Companion Hand In Hand Brethren Love One Another Enjoy The Journey

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.”

People Needs Years Looks Long Desire Simple Taken Events Ordinary Connections Tricks Sensual Isolation Mechanism Daring

Author:Ian Mcewan

“History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.”

People Thinking Long Has Beens Different Cutting Habit Shapes Long Time Spring Boxes Tricks Manage Suits Propaganda Censorship Different Peoples Sleeves Sweaters

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?”

“The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.”

Disaster Tricks Gaps Finding Happiness Brisingr

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let out a low whistle. "Are you sure? How can you tell?" It wasn't a sensible question, but Erak was overwhelmed by the size of the horse herd and he asked the question more for something to say than for any other reason. Halt looked at him dryly. "It's an old calvary trick," he said. "You count the legs and divide by four.”

Said Reason Numbers Four Thousand Ten Lows Horse Size Legs Tricks Teeth Divides Sensible Twelve Overwhelmed Herds Halt Stunned Calvary

Author:John Flanagan

“Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.”

Knows Stupid Tricks Defined Bother Fallen Denied What Is Love

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

Source: The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

Differences Tricks Unhappy Convincing Make You Happy Convincing Yourself

Book:Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!”

Men Sometimes Would Be Half Trouble Worst Tricks Mortals

Book:THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.”

People Ifs Knows Should Heart Littles Persons Enough Facts Hands Fighting Behavior Capable Tricks Nurse Manipulate Helplessness Admitting

Author:Deb Caletti

“She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.”

Way Eye Turns Audience Middle Members Tricks Performing Her Eyes Circus Kitten

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.”

Ifs Knows Years Hands Moving Used Quiet Years Ago Tricks Touched Shy Laughed Anxious Not Afraid Replaced Pardon Being Loved

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.”